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Rh British Fossil Cephalopoda,’ ‘ The Geological Society of London,’ ‘Astronomical Myths,’ Yorkshire Lias,’ etc. (J. F. Bn.)

BLAKE, Prof. William Phipps, Ph.B. ; Director School of Mines, University of Arizona, and territorial geologist of Arizona; author of ‘ Geological Reconnaissance of California,’ ‘Silver Ores and Silver Mines,’ etc. (W. P. B.)

BLÖNDAL, Sigfus, of the University Library, Copenhagen. (S. Bl.)

BLOUNT, Bertram, F.C.S., F.I.C. ; consulting chemist to the Crown Agents for the Colonies; Hon. President Cement Section of International Assoc, for Testing Materials, Buda-Pesth. (B. Bl.)

BLOWITZ, Henri Georges Stephane Adolphe Opper de; ‘The Times’ correspondent in Paris; 'Professor of German at Tours, Limoges, Poitiers, and Marseilles; entered on service of ‘The Times,’ July 1871; inaugurated constant telegraphic communications and obtained the concession from 9 p.m, to 3 a.m. of a special wire for ‘ The Times ’ from 9 May 1874 ; officer of the Legion of Honour; Doctor of Philosophy; officer of the Institute of France; author of ‘ Feuilles Yolantes,’ ‘L’Allemagne et la Provence,’ ‘ Le Manage royal d'Espagne,’ ‘ Une Course a Constantinople.’ (de B.)

BLUNT, Capt. Charles Jasper, R.A.; Chief Ordnance Officer, Guernsey; served in the Chitral campaign, etc. (C. J. B.)

BODLEY, John Edward Courtenay, M.A. ; private secretary to President of Local Government Board, 1882-85 ; secretary to Royal Commission on Housing of the Working Classes, 1884-85; author of ‘ France’: vol. i. ‘ The Revolution and Modern F'rance,’ vol. ii. ‘ The Parliamentary System,’ (French ed. 1901), ‘ L’Anglomanie et les traditions frangaises.’ (J. E. C. B.)

BOLTZMANN, Ludwig; Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Vienna; Hon. Member Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin ; author of ‘Lectures on the Theory of Gas,’ ‘Lectures on Maxwell’s Theory of Electricity and Light ’; editor of ‘ Maxwell’s Physical Forces.’ (L. Bo.)

BONAR, James, M.A., LL.D.; senior Examiner Civil Service Commission, Westminster ; junior Examiner in H.M. Civil Service Commission, 1881; senior Examiner, ibidem, end of 1895; President of Section F of British Association, 1898; author of ‘ Malthus and his Work,’ ‘ Ricardo’s Letters to Malthus,’ ‘ Philosophy and Political Economy,’ ‘Catalogue of Adam Smith’s Library ’ (part), ‘ Ricardo’s Letters to Trower.’ (J. B*.)

BONNEY, Rev. Thomas George, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S.; late Professor of Geology, University Coll. London ; Hon. Canon of Manchester ; Fellow of St John’s Coll. Camb.; Hulsean Lecturer (Camb.), 1884; President Geological Society, 1884-86; Boyle Lecturer, 1890-92; Rede Lecturer (Camb.), 1892 ; VicePresident Royal Society, 1899 ; author of ‘The Alpine Regions,’ ‘The Story of our Planet,’ ‘ Charles Lyell and Modern Geology,’ ‘ IceWork, ‘Volcanoes,’etc. (T. G. B.)

BOSCO, Augustus; Professor of Statistics, University of Rome. (A. Bo.)

BOULENGER, George A., F.R.S., F.Z.S.; assistant, Dept, of Zoology, Brit. Museum, since 1882; author of numerous works dh Zoology. (G- A. B.)

BOURCHIER, James David, M.A.; sometime Scholar of King’s College, Cambridge ; Correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ at Athens. (J. D. B.)

BOURNE, Gilbert Charles, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S. ; Fellow and Tutor of New Coll. Oxford ; assistant to Linacre Professor of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford, 1887-88; Director, Marine Biological Association, United Kingdom, 18891890 ; assistant to Linacre Professor at Oxford, 1892-1900 ; University Lecturer in Comparative Anatomy, 1898 ; author of various memoirs on Comparative Anatomy, an ‘ Introduction to Study of Comp. Anatomy of Animals,’ articles Anthozoa and Ctenophora, in Lankester’s ‘ Zoology,’ etc. (G. O. B.)

BOURNE, Henry Eldridge; Professor of History, College for Women, Western Reserve University, U.S. (H. E. B.)

BOWER, Frederick Orpen, Sc.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.; Regius Professor of Botany, University of Glasgow, since 1885 ; author of ‘ A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany,’ ‘ Practical Botany for Beginners,’ etc. (F. O. B.)

BOWLEY, A. L.; author of ‘Elements of Statistics,’ ‘Wages in the United Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century,’ etc. (A. L. Bo.)

BOYD, Charles Walter, B.A. (Edin.); journalist; sometime private secretary in South Africa to Dr Jameson and Mr Cecil Rhodes. (O. W. B*.)

BRABROOK, Edward William, C.B., F.S.A., V.P.S.S., V.P.R.S.L. ; V.P. Royal Archaeological Institute since 1900 ; Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies since 1891; President Anthropological Institute, 1895 - 97 ; President Folk - Lore Society, 1901; Foreign Associate, Society of Anthropology of Paris, 1901; author of ‘Building Societies,’ ‘Friendly Societies,’ ‘ Savings Banks ’ in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency. Brit.,’ ‘ Provident Societies and Industrial Welfare,’ ‘ History of Royal Society of Literature.’ (E. W. B.)

BRADFORD, John R., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. ; member of Senate of University of London; physician to University Coll. Hospital London; Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, University College, London; Professor Supt. of the Brown Institution; author of papers on medical and scientific subjects in Proc. Roy. Soc. and in Transactions of medical societies, etc. (J. R. B.)

BRÆKSTAD, H. L.; Anglo - Norwegian journalist; translator of standard Norwegian works. (H. L. B.)

BRAMWELL, Capt. G. A.; School of Signalling, Aldershot; Deputy-Assistant-AdjutantGeneral for signalling. (G. A. Bn.)

BRANNER, John Casper, Prof., Ph.D., LL.D. ; Geologist, Imperial Geolog. Commission, Brazil, 1875-1877 ; Agent U.S. Department of Agriculture in Brazil, 1882-83; acting President, Stanford University, U.S.A., 1898-99; Fellow of Geolog. Soc. of London and Societe Geologique de France; member of various scientific societies of North and South America; author of numerous publications on Brazil. (J. C. Bn.)

BRANTLY, William Theophilus; reporter of the Maryland Court of Appeals; exsecretary of State of Maryland; author of ‘Maryland’ in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency. Brit.,’ ‘ Law of Personal Property.’ (W. T. B.)

BRASSEY, Lord, 1st Baron, K.C.B., D.C.L. ; Knight of St John of Jerusalem ; Commander of Legion of Honour, 1889; President Statistical Society, 1879-80; Civil Lord of Admiralty, 1880-83 ; Secretary to Admiralty, 1883-85 ; Chairman of Opium Commission; President of the Institution of Naval Architects, 1893-95 ; Governor of Victoria, 1895-1900 ; author of ‘Work and Wages,’‘ Naval Annual,’ ‘British Navy,’ ‘British Seamen,’ ‘British Work and Foreign Wages,’ etc. (Br.)

BRETT, Michael, Barrister, Middle Temple. (M. Bt.)

BRICKDALE, C. Fortescue, Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn; author of ‘ The Law and Practice regarding the Registration of Deeds in the County of Middlesex,’ ‘ Notes on Land Transfer,’ ‘ Registration of Title to Land,’ part author of ‘ The Land Transfer Acts, 1875 and 1897,’ etc. (C. F. Br.)

BRIDGE, Vice-Admiral Sir Cyprian Arthur George, K.C.B.; Commander-inChief, China station ; member of Committee on Heavy Guns, 1878 ; of War Office Committee on Machine Guns, 1879; of Ordnance Committee, 1881 ; Director of Naval Intelligence, 1889-94; Commander-in-Chief Australian station, 1895-98; author of ‘Signals’ in Ninth Edition of ‘Ency. Brit.’ (C. A. G. B.)

BRIGHTMAN, Rev. Frank Edward, M.A. ; Chaplain Univ. Coll. Oxford, 1884-87 ; Pusey Librarian, 1884; author of ‘ What Objections have been made to English Orders?’; editor of ‘ Liturgies Eastern and Western,’ ‘ The Oxford Library of Practical Knowledge,’ etc. (F. E. Br.)

BRINKLEY, Capt. F., R.A. ; proprietor and editor of the ‘ Japan Mail,’ Yokohama; edited ‘ Japan ’; translated ‘ The History of Japan ’; compiled ‘ An Unabridged Japanese and English Dictionary,’ etc. (F. By.)

BROADFOOT, Major William, R.E. ; author of the Badminton ‘ Billiards ’; edited ‘ Career of Major George Broadfoot, C.B., in Afghanistan and the Punjaub,’ etc. (W. Br.)

BROOME, Lady, widow of the late Sir F. Napier Broome, Governor of West Australia; author of ‘Station Life in New Zealand,’ etc. (M. A. B.)

BROOM HALL, G. J. S., editor of ‘Com Trade Year-Book,’ etc. (G. J. S. B.)

'''BROWNE. Edward Granville''', M.A., M.B.; Fellow or Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Professor of Persian ; editor of ‘ The Episode of the Bab,’ etc. (E. G. B.)

'''BROWNLOW, Rt. Rev. William Robert''' [the late], D.D., M.A., R.C. Bishop of Clifton; provost, and domestic prelate to Pope Leo XIII.; co-editor of ‘English Roma Sotterranea ’; author of ‘ Early Christian Symbolism ’; Memoirs of Melise Brownlow, Sir James Marshall, and Mother Rose Columba Adams, O.P. ; Lectures on Slavery and Serfdom, on Church History, on Sacerdotalism, on the Catacombs, and other Archaeological subjects ; translation of ‘ Cur Deus Homo,’ and ‘ Vitis Mystica.’ (-1- W. R. B.)

BRUNTON, Sir Thomas Lauder, M.D., Sc.D., LL.l). (Edin. and Aberd.), F.R.S. ; physician to St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London ; author of ‘ The Bible and Science,’ ‘ Text-Book of Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Materia Medica,’ ‘ Disorders of Digestion,’ ‘ Lectures on the Action of Medicines.’ (T. L. B.)

BRYAN, George Hartley, Sc.D., F.R.S. ; Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics in the University College of North Wales ; Fellow of Peterhouse, 1889-95 ; gold medal Inst. Naval Architects, 1901. (G. H. Br.)

BRYANT, Hon. Edgar E., LL.D. ; Justice of the Circuit Court of Arkansas, 1890-97; author of ‘ Speeches and Addresses, etc. (E. E. B.)

'''BRYCE, Rt. Hon. James''', P.C., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., M.P.*; Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, 1870; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1886 ; Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster (with seat in Cabinet), 1892; President of Board of Trade, 1894; Chairman of Royal Commission on Secondary Education, 1894; member of Senate of London University, 1893; corresponding member of Institute of France, 1891; foreign member of Royal Academies of Turin and Brussels, 1896; corresponding member of Societa Romana di Storia Patria, 1885; honorary Fellow of Trinity and Oriel Colleges, Oxford ; president of the Alpine Club; author of ‘ Emperor and Empire,’ ‘Justinian,’ ‘ Procopius,’ ‘ Theodora,’ in Ninth Edition of ‘ Ency. Brit.,’ ‘ The Holy Roman Empire,’ ‘The Trade Marks Registration Act,’ ‘ Transcaucasia and Ararat,’ ‘ The American Commonwealth,’ ‘ Impressions of South Africa,’ etc. (J. Br.)

BRYDON, J. M., the late; architect; designed various Government Offices, Chelsea Town Hall and Polytechnic, Bath Municipal Buildings, etc. (J. M. By.)

BUCHANAN, John Young, M.A., F.R.S.; chemist and physicist of the ‘Challenger’ Expedition; later, Lecturer in Geography, University of Cambridge; author of ‘Lake,’ ‘Mediterranean,’ in Ninth Edition of ‘Ency. Brit.’ (J. Y. B.)

BUCKLEY, Rev. James Monroe, D.D., LL.D.; editor of ‘The Christian Advocate’ (New York); author of ‘ Travels in three Continents,’ ‘Faith Healing,’ ‘Christian Science and Kindred Phenomena,’ ‘Supposed Miracles,’ etc. (J. M. Bu.)

'''BURDE, Lieut. Johannes''', late of the German army, 51st Infantry Regiment; author of ‘Problems of Applied Tactics, with Solutions,’ ‘Tactical Problems,’ etc. (J. Be.)

BURDETT, Sir Henry, K.C.B.; founder and editor of the ‘Hospital’; late superintendent of the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham, and of the Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich ; late secretary Share and Loan Department, London Stock Exchange; author of ‘ Burdett’s Official Intelligence of British, American, and Foreign Securities,’ ‘The National Debt,’ ‘Local Taxation in England and Wales,’ ‘The Patriotic Fund,’ ‘Hospitals and Asylums of the World,’ ‘The Relative Mortality of Large and Small Hospitals,’ ‘ Burdett’s Hospitals and Charities, a Year-book of Philanthropy,’ ‘ Hospitals and the State,’ ‘Unhealthiness of Public Institutions,’ ‘ A Practical Scheme for Old Age Pensions,’ ‘The Registration of Nurses,’ ‘The Nursing Profession, how and where to Train,’ ‘ Housing of the Poor,’ etc. (H. Bt.)

BURN, Rev. A. E., B.D. ; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield ; author of ‘ The Athanasian Creed,’ ‘ An Introduction to the Creeds and to the Te Deum,’ etc. (A. E. B.)

BURNSIDE, Rev. Frederick, M.A.; Hon. Canon St Albans ; Rural Dean of Hertford ; Hon. editor of the ‘Official Year-Book of the Church of England ’; compiler of ‘ The Official Parochial Register of Church Services,’ etc. (F. Bu.)

BURNSIDE, William, M.A., F.R.S. ; Professor of Mathematics, Royal Naval College, Greenwich. (W. Bu.)

BURROUGHS, John, author of ‘Wake Robin, ‘Signs and Seasons,’ ‘Birds and Poets,’ ‘Fresh Fields,’ ‘Whitman: A Study,’ etc. (J- Bu.)

BURROWS, Rev. Winfrid Oldfield, M.A.; Vicar of Holy Trinity, Leeds; formerly Principal of Leeds Clergy School and Tutor of Christ Church, Oxford. (W. O. B.)